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Selaxon Lutberg – Simboli Accidentali [English/Polish]

ENG: Selaxon Lutberg is certainly not the most productive project in the world. Yes, you can find quite a number of releases on Discogs signed under that name, but most of them are EPs, splits etc. I have “Cold House Of Love” somewhere on my shelves, released in 2006 by Eibon. Haven’t listened to it in a while, but I remember that it was a piece of good, significantly colored with emotions ambient. This Italian project has just returned with another album, released this time on Denovali Records.

It’s entitled “Simboli Accidentali” and consists of eight untitled pieces. Accidental symbols, snippets of music that everyone can interpret at their own will. This kind of music has always encouraged people who are able to put their imagination to use as it’s slow, melancholic and slightly hazy ambient. Neither turning towards the darkness or ritual areas, nor glorifying the elements and forces of Nature. According to the musician, the tracks on “Simboli Accidentali” are the sound illustrations of individual memories of his childhood. You can approach this music this way. Or you can try any other, no one forbids it.

Guitars take the leading part here. Processed in one way or another, sometimes almost beyond recognition, it seems however clear that the musician probably feels most comfortable in operating this particular instrument. All drones are usually shrouded in a fog which I could describe in a lame-poetic way as a “veil of vagueness”. The sounds that form the basis of a certain piece reach the listener from behind this veil. Sometimes it sounds as if coming from an old vinyl or tape. Sometimes, like from behind walls and neighbors’ speakers. And mostly you just have this feeling that you try to recreate the sound within the mind, where the core of a composition appears to be at hand, yet so very far away. Just like the memories of childhood, close and yet so distant, that you aren’t even sure if it really happened or it is but a remnant of some evocative dream…

I have such a memory. Late evening or even nigh. I look out the kitchen window and see the strange patterns on the sky, like hundreds of luminous vapor contrails left by an indefinite number of aircrafts. To this day I don’t know whether I was dreaming, whether these were just fireworks or perhaps something different, more mysterious. While listening to “Simboli Accidentali” I have this picture in my head. On this ground Selaxon Lutberg definitely wins, though also on a strictly musical basis it’s not bad, by all means. Fans of post rock will find something for themselves, as the album is borderline between this genre and ambient music. I also sense a certain spiritual affinity with Beyond Sensory Experience… Anyway, for looking at old photos, reminiscing, longing for the time when everything was easier… This album suits eminently.